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F. JDHNSON & P. EOGLESTON.

Well Bucket Bottom.

No. 232,726. Patented Sept. 28,1880.

tmtm"1 lll UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEO FRED. JOHNSON AND FRANK EGOLESTON, OF NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA.

WELL-BUCKET BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,726, dated September 28, 1880.

Application tiled May 26, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern Be it known that we, FEED. JOHNSON and FRANK EooLEsToN, of Nebraska City, in the county of Otoe and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Well-Bucket Bottoms; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ot' the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a central vertical section of our improved well-bucket bottom, and Fig. 2 is a bottom view thereof.

This invention has relation to improvements in bottoms for the buckets of bored wells and cisterns; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter shown, described, and set forth in the claim.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates the cylindrical body of the bucket, and B the cast-metal bottom thereof, soldered or otherwise properly secured to the body thereof below the chine, and provided with a supportingiiange, c', serving as a base for the bucket. ln this ilange are made a number of edge recesses, b, or it may be numerously perforated.

The bottom B is usually of iron, tinned or galvanized, and is preferably cast. It is provided with a central circular hole, c, across which extends diametrically a guide, d, having a central perforation, e, through which extends the stem fof a concave-convex valve, C. This Valve is made of metal, and bears with its concave side downward on the bottom B, closing the opening c therein. lt is provided with a leather or rubber' facing, j", secured to it by means of the nuts g, applied upon the stem fof the valve above and below the disk O, as shown in Fig. l, the said nuts not only securing the facing to the valve, but also the stem to the valve.

It will be clear that when the bucket is raised full valve C will press upon the bottom B and close the opening therein, so that there can be no escape of water; consequently the bucket will be raised to the surface without loss of its contents; but when the said bucket is placed in a trough or other receptacle the flange of the bottom support-ing the same, the headed end t" of the stem comes in contact with the bottom of said trough or receptacle, and, being pushed upward through its guide, raises the valve and discloses the opening thereof, so that the contents of the bucket iiow from out of the said opening and rush out of the edge recesses b ot' iiange a into the receptacle. The saine result will occur when the bucket, after being partly emptied, is set on awell curb or cover. It is thus drained automatically, and in freezing weather is not liable to be burst by the ice forming en the surface of the`water, as is the case in close buckets, when, through carelessness, the contents are not poured out.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A well-bucket bottom constructed with a central circular opening, c, a perforated guide, d, extending across said opening, the iiange a, having edge recesses b, the valve C, provided with a stem, f, engaging said perforated guide and opening, the said flange being adapted to be soldered to the body of a well-bucket, and the flange supporting said bucket, as shown and described.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two witnesses.

FRED. JOHNSON.

Witnesses: FRANK EGOLESTON.

THos. B. S'rEvENsoN, WM. MoLENNAN. 

